African American Biography

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    • Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream
    • De: Tiffanie Drayton
    • Narrado por: Tiffanie Drayton
    • Duración: 9 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-15-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 calificaciones
    • After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people.

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • De: Ruby Bridges
    • Narrado por: Ruby Bridges, Ron Butler, Robin Miles
    • Duración: 2 h y 12 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-10-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 calificaciones
    • In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event....

    Precio regular: $10.91

    • An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
    • De: Adam Makos
    • Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
    • Duración: 14 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-27-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,496 calificaciones
    • Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country....

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • De: Tyler Perry
    • Narrado por: Tyler Perry
    • Duración: 4 h y 38 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-18-07
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,943 calificaciones
    • Here's "Madea" Mabel Simmons telling her own story, dishing her memoirs and hard-won, hilarious wisdom in her own inimitable voice (with a little help from her friend Tyler Perry)....

    Precio regular: $12.60

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    • A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers
    • De: Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
    • Narrado por: Daphne Kouma
    • Duración: 8 h y 11 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-16-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • Covering thousands of years, six continents, and just about every mathematical discipline, The Secret Lives of Numbers is an immensely compelling narrative history.

    Precio regular: $25.19

    • De: Coretta Scott King, Barbara Reynolds
    • Narrado por: January LaVoy, Phylicia Rashad
    • Duración: 14 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-16-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 calificaciones
    • The life story of Coretta Scott King - wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist - as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends....

    Precio regular: $24.74

    • A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
    • De: Karolyn Smardz Frost
    • Narrado por: Karen Chilton
    • Duración: 14 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-29-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 calificaciones
    • Acclaimed archeologist and historian Karolyn Smardz Frost painstakingly resurrects Thornton and Lucie Blackburn⿿s perilous 1830s journey from Kentucky slavery to Canadian freedom....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • De: Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrado por: Mia Ellis
    • Duración: 8 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-26-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 512 calificaciones
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

    Precio regular: $20.00

    • De: John Howard Griffin
    • Narrado por: Ray Childs
    • Duración: 7 h y 9 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-24-03
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,748 calificaciones
    • Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....

    Precio regular: $17.16

    • De: Richard Wright
    • Narrado por: Peter Francis James
    • Duración: 15 h y 28 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-18-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 calificaciones
    • Richard Wright's powerful and eloquent memoir of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. At once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment, Black Boy is a poignant record of struggle and endurance - a seminal literary work....

    Precio regular: $26.99

    • A Life of Reinvention
    • De: Manning Marable
    • Narrado por: G. Valmont Thomas
    • Duración: 22 h y 4 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-04-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,418 calificaciones
    • Years in the making, this is the definitive biography of the legendary black activist....

    Precio regular: $27.00

    • A Life
    • De: David Greenberg
    • Narrado por: David Sadzin
    • Duración: 24 h y 27 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-08-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 calificaciones
    • A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” John Lewis draws on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.

    Precio regular: $29.99

    • The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
    • De: Imani Perry
    • Narrado por: LisaGay Hamilton
    • Duración: 8 h y 27 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-18-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 calificaciones
    • Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • How the Texas All-Stars Kicked Down Racial Walls
    • De: Jim Dent
    • Narrado por: Brian Hutchison
    • Duración: 8 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-03-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 calificaciones
    • The New York Times best-selling author of The Junction Boys pens the story of Texas high school football integration, and the three men who put together a championship team....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win
    • De: Shelby Steele
    • Narrado por: Richard Allen
    • Duración: 3 h y 21 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-04-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 calificaciones
    • Steele argues that Senator Obama is caught between two classic postures that Blacks have always used to make their way in the White American mainstream....

    Precio regular: $10.31

    • De: Frederick Douglass
    • Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Duración: 4 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-17-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 181 calificaciones
    • This memoir written by writer, orator, and former slave Frederick Douglass describes, in gripping detail, the circumstances of his upbringing, his brutal treatment at the hands of slave-owners, and his narrow escape from Maryland to freedom....

    Precio regular: $13.54

    • An Autobiographical Journey
    • De: Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad
    • Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
    • Duración: 16 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-26-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 164 calificaciones
    • In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s....

    Precio regular: $22.50

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